Thank you to Brian Geiger at Vita Brevis for publishing my poem.

https://vitabrevisliterature.com/poems/changing-lanes-poem-by-linda-imbler/




Photo Courtesy of Vita Brevis
"Figures in the Street" by Pierre Bonnard

Changing Lanes

As one breathes in
the beauty of nature,
and life’s greatest treasures,
another breathes out,
and all becomes still,
as they go into memory.

One falls down,
the fault of such action
being tricky to discern,
the wayside becomes the lover
as the faller clings to the ground.
Another stands up,
rises to greet the day
and to face adversity.

All of us on life’s great footpath,
going the same direction,
albeit at different speeds.